Location from The Expanse by James S.A. Corey
Small Belt station where Fred Johnson earned the name 'The Butcher of Anderson Station.' UN Marines under his command killed unarmed civilians who had already surrendered — a massacre that haunted Johnson and drove him to the OPA.
Anderson Station was a minor rock in the Belt that became the defining atrocity of Earth-Belt relations. When workers seized the station in a labor dispute, Earth sent Marines. Fred Johnson commanded the assault, operating on intelligence that told him the station was heavily armed and fortified. The intelligence was wrong, or it was a lie. The occupiers had already surrendered by the time Johnson's Marines breached. The transmission was delayed — or was it? Johnson gave the order, and his Marines killed everyone. Men, women, children. Unarmed people in a corridor with their hands up. The UN called it a successful operation. The Belt called it murder. Fred Johnson called it the worst thing he ever did, and spent the rest of his life trying to atone. He left Earth's military, joined the OPA, and dedicated himself to building a Belt that could never be so powerless again. Anderson Station is why Fred Johnson is who he is — every decision he makes carries the weight of those bodies.
A small, utilitarian Belt station — nothing remarkable in its construction. Standard tunneled rock, industrial corridors, life support systems straining under deferred maintenance. The kind of station that housed a few thousand workers and never made the news until it did. After the massacre, the station became a memorial — blood stains that no one cleaned, bullet holes left in bulkheads as testimony.
Also known as: Anderson Station, Anderson